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Competition

First and last

5 May 2018

9:00 AM

5 May 2018

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3046 you were invited to supply a poem beginning with the last line of any well-known poem and ending with its first line, the new poem being on a different subject all together.
 
This was a wildly popular comp, which elicited a witty and wide-ranging entry that was both pleasurable and painful to judge.

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